1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798560603321

Autore

Brian Amber <1970->

Titolo

Alva Ixtlilxochitl's native archive and the circulation of knowledge in colonial Mexico / / Amber Brian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nashville : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8265-0381-0

0-8265-2099-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

972/.01

Soggetti

Indians of Mexico

Indians of Mexico - Historiography

Mexico History To 1519 Historiography

Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : giving and receiving -- Chapter 1. Creoles, mestizos, and the native archive -- Chapter 2. Land, law, and lineage : the cacicazgo of San Juan Teotihuacan -- Chapter 3. Configuring native knowledge : seventeenth-century mestizo -- Chapter 4. Circulating native knowledge : seventeenth-century creole -- Epilogue : native knowledge and colonial networks.

Sommario/riassunto

"Focusing on the production and circulation of native knowledge through collaborations between indigenous, mestizo, and creole intellectuals in colonial Mexico, this book proceeds through an in-depth case study of the exchange of native materials between the family of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochtil and don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778129703321

Autore

Scales Ann

Titolo

Legal feminism [[electronic resource] ] : activism, lawyering, and legal theory / / Ann Scales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-8688-X

0-8147-3987-3

1-4294-8497-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

340/.115082

Soggetti

Feminist jurisprudence

Sex and law

Feminist jurisprudence - United States

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The rule of law -- Certainty and doubt -- Intractable questions -- The limits of liberalism -- Feminist legal theory -- Feminist legal method -- False consciousness -- The future of legal feminism.

Sommario/riassunto

In the late 1970's, feminist scholars and activists joined together to build a movement aimed at bringing feminist theory and experiences to the practice and teaching of American law. Since then, the feminist jurisprudence movement has taken root, with courts and legislatures addressing matters of sex and gender inequality, and law schools employing feminist and post-feminist theory in the classroom. In this important book, Ann Scales, a founding contributor to the movement, reflects on the past, present, and future of feminist jurisprudence. Legal Feminism situates the feminist jurisprudence m